Cave Spring Ground Game Masters Bulldogs 34-7

Hidden Valley senior running back Mason Dermott picks up yardage Friday night as the Titans knocked off previously undefeated Northside 16-6. Dermott paced the Hidden Valley running game with 74 yards and picked off three Viking passes from the defensive side.
Cave Spring freshman running back Willie Harden slips through a trio of Martinsville defenders to pick up yardage in the knights 34-7 win over the Bulldogs Friday night.

Cave Spring had worked all week on their game plan against visiting Martinsville.

“Pretty simple,” Knight senior linebacker Zac Foutz noted at midfield after the contest. “We wanted to run the ball down their throats.”
Executing to perfection, Cave Spring  pounded the Bulldog defense all night long via the rushing game to run away with the 34-7 win Friday night at Dwight Bogle Stadium.
The Knights stayed on the ground for 58 plays and 293 yards, paving the way to a 20-0 halftime lead and 34-0 advantage in late in the third quarter before Martinsville finally scored its first points of the season when Bulldog quarterback Jay Dandridge connected on a 48-yard touchdown pass to Draeon Dickerson.
“Busted coverage,” Foutz said of giving up the long play.
But, it was too little, too late against a Knights team that ran at will.
Junior tailback Tyler Rice and senior Jon Roach shared the workhorse load for Cave Spring with Rice picking up 153 yards on 22 carries and Roach notching 110 yards on 17 carries.
Cave Spring may have found a third entry to compliment the Roach-Rice tandem when diminutive freshman Willie Harden, the shortest member on the Knight roster at 5’4″ and one of the lightest at 118 pounds, entered  in the second half, plowing through the sizable Bulldog line for 17 yards on 9 carries.
When asked if he was ready to elbow his way into the Roach-Rice backfield, Harden answered with a grin, “No sir. I don’t know about that.”
Cave Spring pulled away from a scoreless first quarter with 20 points in the second frame. Roach went in for touchdowns from 2 and 17 yards before senior Ty Albritton hauled in a 2-yard TD pass from Knight quarterback Alex Emery that had been set up by a Rice interception.
The Knights added their final 14 points in the third quarter when Roach returned a 65-yard interception for a TD with 8:58 left, then scored his fourth touchdown of the game on a 4-yard run that followed a Bulldog turnover.
Martinsville opened the second half with a successful insides kick, but an ineligible substitution, delay of game and series of dropped passes ended any designs of a Bulldog comeback
“We want to improve,” Martinsville head coach Orion Martin said. “Tonight, we dropped a lot of passes. We just need to catch it better.”
“Our plan was to grind it out in the trenches,” Cave Spring head coach Tim Fulton pointed out. “We were going to take what they gave us. Our line did a good job and our defensive efficiency was good. I’m always happy with a win.”
Bill Turner

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